In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is at once admired, respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys and mystifies a quartet of insatiable beasts: a cunning fox, an angry wolf, a gluttonous bear and a muddy boar. Together, the haughty brutes march off towards Hedgehog’s home to see just what is so precious about this “castle, shiny and huge.” What they find amazes them and sparks a tense and prickly standoff.
Direction
Cvijanović spent years needle-felting every frame by hand.
Writing
Branko Ćopić's Yugoslav poem, untranslatable yet universal.
Cinematography
Miniature forest so tactile you can smell the moss.
Director
Eva Cvijanović
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Branko Ćopić's 1949 poem, written as Yugoslavia's communist project demanded collective identity over individual attachment—Hedgehog's stubborn privacy was quietly subversive.
The entire film was animated at 12fps with replacement animation—each 'breath' required a completely new needle-felted puppet, thousands hand-sculpted over four years.
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